The United States celebrates its Star and Stripes with Flag Day on June 14, the date in 1777 that the Continental Congress adopted the red,…
Visitors to Chicago—first timers and frequent travelers—have no shortage of sightseeing and shopping options, from museums, to strolling Michigan Avenue’s Magnificent Mile, or people-watching at…
Woods, water, and wayward men are key to the local economy in Newberry, a lumber boom town established in 1882 in the thick forests of the…
Take a break. Escape for a minute to a place of beauty, blinker light towns, beaches and oddities in Michigan, the Great Lakes State. Visit…
The handsome Newberry Library is constructed of pink granite Spending time in a library isn’t on the Top Ten list of things to see…
9.23.25 NOTE: This story was posted in October 2016. It does not reflect the changes at The Sweet Shop since then, including the store’s purchase…
Buster Keaton, a creative giant in the history of motion pictures, has ties to Michigan—something celebrated every October at a gathering in Muskegon near the honoree’s…
The buzz about ArtPrize, the “radically open international art competition” that consumes Grand Rapids each autumn, is justified. I’ve read about it, prowled the ArtPrize…
Although we’ve never attended it, I had a dream about being in the thick of things at the annual Outhouse Classic in the Upper Peninsula town of…
Beer is big in Michigan. Current count is 250 small, craft brewers across the state. It’s a movement more than worthy of a celebration or…
